Florida Woman Fights to Keep Her Pet Alligator

[Suburban_Guy]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-wom...ry?id=37717980

Cute alligator, hope she can keep it.

Meet Rambo, a gentle alligator whose Florida owner says he "eats at the dinner table, sleeps in my bed and follows me around like my dogs."

But now his owner, 55-year-old Mary Thorn, is fighting to keep him since she was recently denied a permit for the 125-pound gator.

Thorn told ABC News today that she's had a permit to keep the 15-year-old alligator ever since she rescued and brought him home more than seven years ago, when Rambo was just a little over a foot long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW-Q8wxPBKQ

[Unsettomati]

[MyNameIsBellaMia]

Have it declared a service animal...problem solved.


It is cute.

[marlinfshr]

I think we'll be hearing about this women again at a later date!

[hawaiiancoconut]

Expect a future 911 call

[Dude111]

I hope things work out for the best!!

[Cliffie]

If she has a permit, why is there any dispute in the first place?

[ohhwanderlust]

A pet maneater yanked from its natural habitat to be kept in someone's house, carted around supermarkets, hanging out with dogs and children, eats crap from their fridge, all in Florida, mind you...


What could possibly go wrong???

[JAMS14]

Originally Posted by ohhwanderlust

A pet maneater yanked from its natural habitat to be kept in someone's house, carted around supermarkets, hanging out with dogs and children, eats crap from their fridge, all in Florida, mind you...


What could possibly go wrong???

There's a reason that state is known as Flori-DUH.

[aquietpath]

Just goes to show any animal will respond to love and kindness. What harm is there in letting her keep her pet? It's obviously well cared for and so domesticated it probably won't survive in the wild. It may not be everyone's choice of pet, but Leave the poor woman alone!